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Desire and Fate
Cioran wrote that intelligence flourishes only in ages when belief withers. The reverse is also true. In this age of designer gods and boutique beliefs…
May 1
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Desire and Fate
The dystopia into which we have entered is neither Orwell’s 1984 nor Huxley’s Brave New World, but rather 1984 as rewritten by Huxley.
May 1
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davidrieff
April 2024
Desire and Fate
Toxic empathy. Once you relativize truth, feeling becomes unimpeachable and empathy a moral obligation, no matter what one is empathizing with.
Apr 28
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
The Woke Academe “interrogates” everything, save for its own conventional wisdom. That it venerates
Apr 17
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
Our contemporary idols are so debased as to be undeserving even of our iconoclasm.
Apr 15
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
Milan Kundera’s definition of Kitsch is worth recalling in its entirety. “Kitsch,” he wrote, “causes to tears to flow in quick succession. The first…
Apr 15
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
Woke is as essential a moral emollient for a fundamentally ruthless, grasping, and immoral neoliberal academy (and, by extension, its dependencies in…
Apr 11
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
If one is going to despair, and it is difficult to see any rational justification for not doing so, one should at all costs wear that despair lightly…
Apr 8
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
In the past, those committed to social emancipation would have viewed psychological solipsism, whether of the individual or of the group, as an…
Apr 5
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davidrieff
March 2024
Desire and Fate
One of the paradoxes of the contemporary obsession with gender identity is its radical anti-sensuality. Because it is about ideology, it is…
Mar 18
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
Every generation parses its existential unhappiness in its own unique way. And sex and gender is how today’s young express it. This, rather than some…
Mar 17
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davidrieff
Desire and Fate
Has there been an identitarian politics before our own that so mistook its own solipsism for solidarity?
Mar 11
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